Dan Shechtman
Dan Shechtman דן שכטמן | |
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Dan Shechtman, Nobel Prize 2011 press conference. | |
| Born | January 24, 1941 Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
| Education | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Technion |
| Known for | Quasicrystals |
| Spouse | Tzipora Shechtman |
| Children | Yoav Shechtman |
| Awards | Weizmann Prize(1993) Israel Prize (1998) Wolf Prize in Physics (1999) Gregori Aminoff Prize (2000) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials science |
| Institutions | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Johns Hopkins University National Institute of Standards and Technology Iowa State University Technion Tohoku University |
Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals, also referred to as "quasicrystals."
He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of quasicrystals, making him one of six Israelis who have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.